Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > Rather than the "" empty string for off I suggest an explicit string > that makes it clear what the meaning is. PYTHONHASHSEED="disabled" > perhaps. > > Agreed, if we can have a single env var that is preferred. It is more > obvious that the PYTHONHASHSEED env var. has no effect when it is set > to a special value rather than when it is set to something but it is > configured to be ignored by a _different_ env var.
I think this is bike-shedding. The requirements for environment variables are a) with no variable set, it must not do randomization b) there must be a way to seed from the platform's RNG Having an explicit seed actually is no requirement, so I'd propose to drop PYTHONHASHSEED instead. However, I really suggest to let the patch author (Dave Malcolm) design the API within the constraints. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13703> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
